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New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter ...
If you ever travel back in time to hang out with Homo sapiens around 41,000 years ago, pack some sunscreen – or better yet, a ...
Mars doesn't have an organized planetary magnetic field like Earth, so auroras can appear anywhere in the sky. Now there's a ...
The team found that the North Pole wandered over Europe when the magnetic field's poles started to flip positions, a natural process that has happened around 180 times over Earth's geological history.
According to NASA, the aurora on Earth may last only a few minutes, but on Saturn, it can last for days. In the 2010s, aurora ...
These ghostly glows are most visible near the magnetic poles. But thanks to increasing solar activity, they're now appearing farther south and more frequently than usual. Whether you're planning a ...
The telescope captured the space phenomena, which is hundreds of times brighter than the auroras we see on Earth.
These advances may have been particularly advantageous when Earth’s magnetic poles switched a bit, according to a study published April 16 in the journal Science Advances. Earth’s magnetic ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has observed glowing auroras on Jupiter like never before.